Twitter Releases Two Step Login Verification

Twitter has officially released multifactor (otherwise known as two step) authentication for logging in to user accounts. The company announced on Wednesday that it now supports SMS-based multifactor authentication to verify accounts. This method involves setting up a designated phone number with the Twitter account, so that each time the user wishes to login to the account they are sent a text message with the randomly-generated code that they must enter before gaining access to the account.

We strongly encourage anyone using Twitter to get started with their login verification today. To do so:

After you’ve enabled the login verification, you’ll be asked to enter the six-digit code that Twitter sends to your phone via SMS each time you try to login.

They also created a great short video on getting started:

The only downside we currently see is that Twitter does not support “page admins” at this time. A company must have one Twitter login to manage a brand page, unlike Facebook and G+ that allow individuals to have their own logins who then have admin access to manage a brand page. This means that the company must enable the login verification set-up with one particular phone, and ensure that whoever needs access to the brand’s Twitter account has access to that phone.

In regards to using the new method with multiple admins, the companies could setup a free Google Voice account, set text forwarding to all the admins, and set the google voice number as the number Twitter sends the message to. All the admins would receive the text message when someone went to login.

Agreed. I do not want to use my phone number for anything that I do not have to. It just another thing for someone to lose (or share). Why not use the open source standard??? Even Microsoft is on board with it.

How a company implements two factor authentication is becoming important enough that it will determine which sites and services I will actually use.

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